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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Per Carlbring is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology. Their research encompasses areas within sociology and political science as well as social psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as digital mental health interventions, mental health research topics, and issues related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional research interests include gambling behavior and treatments, the impact of technology on adolescents, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and the mental health effects related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key recent papers include:

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Therapist-supported Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy yields similar effects as face-to-face therapy for psychiatric and somatic disorders: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (2023, World Psychiatry)
  • Digital mental health: challenges and next steps (2023, BMJ Mental Health)
  • Consensus statement on the problem of terminology in psychological interventions using the internet or digital components (2020, Internet Interventions)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Gerhard Andersson, Philip Lindner, Alexander Rozental, Daniel K. W. Young, and Robert Johansson.

Publication venues commonly featuring their work are:

  • Internet Interventions
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Research on Social Work Practice
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Frontiers in Psychology

The body of work by Per Carlbring contributes to the field of psychology through an emphasis on digital formats of psychological interventions and mental health research, notably integrating clinical, experimental, and applied psychological perspectives. The emphasis on internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy across various studies positions their research at the intersection of technology and mental health treatment methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Guided Internet-based vs. face-to-face cognitive behavior therapy for psychiatric and somatic disorders : a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Gerhard Andersson;Pim Cuijpers;Per Carlbring;Heleen Riper;Heleen Riper

  • Internet-based vs. face-to-face cognitive behavior therapy for psychiatric and somatic disorders: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

    Per Carlbring;Gerhard Andersson;Pim Cuijpers;Heleen Riper;Heleen Riper

  • Virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

    Emily Carl;Aliza T Stein;Andrew Levihn-Coon;Jamie R Pogue

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis.

    Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Orestis Efthimiou;Orestis Efthimiou;Clara Miguel;Clara Miguel;Frederic Maas Genannt Bermpohl

  • Internet-based self-help for depression : randomised controlled trial

    Gerhard Andersson;Jan Bergström;Fredrik Holländare;Per Carlbring

  • The efficacy of app-supported smartphone interventions for mental health problems: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

    Jake Linardon;Pim Cuijpers;Per Carlbring;Mariel Messer

  • Internet-delivered psychological treatments: from innovation to implementation

    Gerhard Andersson;Nickolai Titov;Blake F. Dear;Alexander Rozental

  • Internet-based self-help with therapist feedback and in vivo group exposure for social phobia: A randomized controlled trial.

    Gerhard Andersson;Per Carlbring;Annelie Holmström;Elisabeth Sparthan

  • Treatment of panic disorder: live therapy vs. self-help via the Internet

    Per Carlbring;Elisabeth Nilsson-Ihrfelt;Johan Waara;Cecilia Kollenstam

  • Predictors of treatment dropout in self-guided web-based interventions for depression: an 'individual patient data' meta-analysis

    Eirini Karyotaki;Annet M. Kleiboer;Filip Smit;David Trevor Turner

  • Internet vs. paper and pencil administration of questionnaires commonly used in panic/agoraphobia research

    Per Carlbring;Sara Brunt;Susanne Bohman;David Austin

  • Treatment of social phobia: randomised trial of internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural therapy with telephone support.

    Per Carlbring;Magdalena Gunnarsdóttir;Linda Hedensjö;Gerhard Andersson

  • Depression, anxiety and their comorbidity in the Swedish general population : point prevalence and the effect on health-related quality of life

    Robert Johansson;Per Carlbring;Åsa Heedman;Björn Paxling

  • Internet-delivered treatments with or without therapist input: does the therapist factor have implications for efficacy and cost?

    Björn Palmqvist;Per Carlbring;Gerhard Andersson

  • Consensus statement on defining and measuring negative effects of Internet interventions

    Alexander Rozental;Gerhard Andersson;Gerhard Andersson;Johanna Boettcher;David Daniel Ebert

  • Treatment of panic disorder via the internet: A randomized trial of a self-help program *

    Per Carlbring;Bengt E. Westling;Peter Ljungstrand;Lisa Ekselius

  • Guided and unguided self-help for social anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial.

    Tomas Furmark;Per Carlbring;Erik Hedman;Annika Sonnenstein

  • Behavioural activation versus mindfulness-based guided self-help treatment administered through a smartphone application: a randomised controlled trial.

    Kien Hoa Ly;Anna Trüschel;Linnea Jarl;Susanna Magnusson

  • Internet Interventions for Adults with Anxiety and Mood Disorders: A Narrative Umbrella Review of Recent Meta-Analyses.

    Gerhard Andersson;Per Carlbring;Nickolai Titov;Nils Lindefors

  • Tailored vs. standardized internet-based cognitive behavior therapy for depression and comorbid symptoms: a randomized controlled trial.

    Robert Johansson;Elin Sjöberg;Magnus Sjögren;Erik Johnsson

  • Remote Treatment of Panic Disorder: A Randomized Trial of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy Supplemented With Telephone Calls

    Per Carlbring;Susanna Bohman;Sara Brunt;Monica Buhrman

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Tomas Furmark
Tomas Furmark Uppsala University
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Viktor Kaldo
Viktor Kaldo Karolinska Institute
Heleen Riper
Heleen Riper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Brjánn Ljótsson
Brjánn Ljótsson Karolinska Institute
Erik Hedman
Erik Hedman Karolinska Institute
Peter Hassmén
Peter Hassmén Southern Cross University
Louise von Essen
Louise von Essen Uppsala University
Odd E. Havik
Odd E. Havik University of Bergen

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